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Originally Posted by MisterPeabody
Sarah_Jayne you are my new music heroine! You should be a music editor or something, or write a new music blog. You truly love music and know so much more than me about post-2000 bands and artists I am humbled, impressed and hopeful, all at once. LOL Excellent suggestions and knowledge.
For me, I'm fairly encyclopedic with music between 1965-1995 tho I'm only 43 (only? LOL). I've always been into music a little older than my peers. While I loved the Cure and saw them in 1984 I dig Dylan, The Who, Kinks, Marley, Lou Reed, Iggy pop, Bowie, Queen, etc etc.
So these are my examples. While there's so much great (new) music in this thread little of it touches me the way those older artists did.
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I'd be lying if I didn't say that I have wondered how I could eventually do something to do with music. Next to sex it is what I love the most with the only difference being that I have no musical talent. I just love listening to it. I'm not sure how at 36 where I would even start.
You had go and mention that you saw The Cure. When I was something like 19, I drew up a 'must see before I die' list of performers. I've seen every act on the list, most of them multiple times but the Cure just hasn't happened. When I lived in the UK, they were always playing the States. Now that I moved back, it feels like they are never here. I've joked that if I do get to see them and the list becomes complete there might suddenly be gold beams of light coming out of my sleeves.
I understand what you mean in this thread and I really do think it comes down to lack of collective memory. People barely even watch music videos now. So, the imagery isn't with us a a society. Lady GaGa managed to get herself known mostly because she created that 'look at me' stuff that most other performers of recent years haven't been able to do.
Speaking of old, I'm seeing Fleetwood Mac on Wednesday and I had a hard time finding anybody I knew that was familiar enough with their songs that wanted to go with me.